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What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby?

For example :I recently learned a hard lesson- I accidentally ran voltage thru my $3000 MC cartridge (kiseki purple heart).  I have a TT with 5 prong connector and a phono cable with a 5 prong connector.  I accidentally swapped where they plugged into and ran electric thru the tonearm into the cartridge.  It was a stupid - not thinking- hasty mistake. When I corrected the problem the cartridge was fried.  An avalanche of four letter words followed!

So what has been your biggest and/or costliest mistake?
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douglas_schroeder
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I always shut down to change a rig. Biggest mistake was putting an opamp into EE DAC wrong orientation.  Not a major dollar crisis. I triple check all connections,  so no kabooms.

Dealt with two liars over the years, an that cost me a few hundred. 
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